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Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women (vice.com)
After a member of the information security community provided evidence to Facebook's chief information security officer, the company has terminated a security engineer who allegedly used their work position to stalk women online. From a report: On Monday, Motherboard reported that Facebook was investigating a claim that one of its employees used access to data granted by their job to stalk women online. Facebook has since terminated the employee, Facebook confirmed to Motherboard on Tuesday, coincidentally shortly after the social media giant announced its upcoming dating service. "We are investigating this as a matter of urgency. It's important that people's information is kept secure and private when they use Facebook," Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief information security officer, told Motherboard in a statement.
good luck with that!
Should this evidence have been provided to authorities?
Just how far did this stalking go? Did he ever act on any of the information? Make unrequested contact or show up on doorsteps?
This sort of abuse of power *should* get him fired. Depending on his other actions, it should also get him arrested. If someone in the medical or financial fields use their access to someones private information (e.g. home address or phone number), then they'd get slapped with some "hacking" or "unlawful computer access" charges. What gives?
Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women
Cue Sheryl Sandberg doing walk of shame out to parking lot with box of her stuff.
I hope he gets cancer. Now onto that other asshole zucc.... Firing squad!
Who watches the watchmen?
Throughout Facebook and the whole data tracking "industry" there is power for thousands of employees to stalk, and the majority are getting away with it.
No proof! No collusion! Rule of law! Attorney privilege in space! Lock her up! Make Armenian Grates again!
"Engineer - that word is SO overused these days. I love tweaking putzes who call themselves engineers who are junior to me by just saying, "I'm just a programmer."
See, back in the day, being "just a programmer" was plenty for us. And we had to program in the snow, uphill, both ways. We didn't have all these new fangly libraries where all today's kids have to do is just call Application.do_all_the_work_for_me.because_I_cannot_think() and you're done.
And with these new EYE DEE EEEs, you kids can just point and click and drag and drop and you're all done for the day.
In my day, we actually had to WRITE our applications! We had a teletype keyboard and we had to type and type and type....
But we didn't need to be called "engineers"! Heck no! We took pride in the fact that we laid down the code!!
Ah! App progamming Java/Swift/.NET whipper snappers need to get some humility and gumption!
Problem solved! Right? BTW, I like these new cuddly Facebook advertisements you guys are running! I totally trust you will do the right thing from now on!
since when?
oh, you mean only when they get caught doing something 'bad' and the news goes viral? oooooooooohh. well that makes everything ok, then.
So now Facebook is firing people for allegedly does something? I'm allegedly a billionaire, but nothing is proven yet.
Two stories down: "Tech giants hit by NSA spying slam encryption backdoors. The tech coalition includes Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Verizon and Yahoo's parent company Oath — all of which were hit by claims of complicity with US government's surveillance."
It's the usual tech company hypocrisy. They'll defend data tooth and nail against law enforcement, but internally it all appears to be readily available to any pervert.
So now Facebook is firing people for allegedly does something? I'm allegedly a billionaire, but nothing is proven yet.
Companies fire people for allegedly doing things all the time. People who are arrested will frequently lose a job if an employer finds out, even though nothing has been proven. It's not just, but companies don't want to take the risk and people are usually employed as at-will employees.
Also, "allegedly" from motherboard's perspective just means that Motherboard is deathly afraid of legal risk and is taking a highly defensible position in case they get sued. Newspapers do this all the time, even when they don't have to, to avoid liability and to pretend they're being a little more neutral.
Also, believe it or not, you have less data than Facebook. Facebook is highly likely to have checked its data before terminating the employee. If the employee was innocent and a good employee, they are not likely to have terminated him. Under normal conditions I would say there's no way they terminated him without checking, but they're under a lot of public pressure lately and don't want another press fire, so it's merely extremely unlikely.
Ok, so you fired a person who was abusing his power of position at a company. Why is this a story? It's not. It's only floated out there by Facebook to "show" they are doing something. This will not be tolerated!! See?!? We care here at Facebook!!
FB is rumored to be working on a dating app and this guy was beta testing it.. This reminds me of everyone's first friend on Friendster - Tom from Myspace. I guess creepy developers are not getting laid enough at facebook, so they need another way of hooking up.
Unless Facebook can demonstrate how they have restrictions in place for keeping employees away from personal production data, you have to assume all Facebook employees are stalking. They should also explain how 'this' employee had to do a convoluted end-run around the procedures. There is no in between.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
So, one guy from FB stalks someone -- fire him!
But when a company (advertisement) stalks me across the internet -- that's business!
-- "Oh. This guy again."
What exactly is stalking on Facebook?
Who knew Facebook could do PR?
I'm impressed... You need to give the PR department a bonus for all those late nights in smoky rooms crafting all these slick press releases. Buy them pizza and coke too. They deserve it.
I'd say you could give them a day off with pay, but I'm afraid that might be too risky. You need somebody minding the press, ready to combat the PR blemishes, ready to react to head off the rumor mill before it can start....
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
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Of course, many of their security people and some others will be doing this, but this guy got _caught_! That means he is incompetent and that is the reason to fire him.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Thank you for all that you have given to me, hopefully all of these are useful for all of us
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It's important that people's information is kept secure and private when they use Facebook," Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief information security officer, told Motherboard in a statement.
... you are SO working for the wrong company. (But of course this is PR, not a recitation of true principles.)
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Wasn't FB built to stalk women..?
But looking at data without a business need is against FCC rules.
Everyone gets annual training for this in telecom. I never spoke to customers, but had to complete annual training. It must have been an FCC mandate. I almost never had access to CPNI data and certainly not to any call records.
BTW, a few times a year, there are rumors inside every telecom about an employee abusing her access to make trouble for ex-spouses. And obviously, unlisted numbers are leaked ... somehow. We would test systems using dead politicians and rock star names. Some systems could only be fully tested on production networks. The issue was sometimes real people have names like that too.
I think cable operators have this law too - to prevent which dirty movies we rent/watch from showing up in newspapers or online.
Govt workers get annual training/retraining for ethics considerations if their role has them interacting outside the company.
Time for regulations about customer proprietary data across all businesses in the USA to be enacted. Best Buy, Facebook, Walgreens, or Safeway, Taco Bell, Macy's ... any data they have shouldn't be shared except to provide services to the customers, without expressed, written, approval.
Do you want online tracking to give up your data?
Do you want Microcenter fixing your computer to rifle through the HDD for compromising data/media?
I don't want Plex, Spotify, or Kodi sharing my music or watched files either.
Do you want Macy's sharing that you buy XXXL women's panties?
I don't.
Decadence! I had a hole in the ground! We had to beat off the coyotes with a stick!!
Have gnu, will travel.
I was a contractor for a health care company and was horrified at the sensitive data I had access to. There were no easy solutions. Spend days imperfectly sanitizing terabytes of data to troubleshoot a client issue, or jump right into the client site to resolve the issue today. I'm not ashamed to say I nearly had a mental breakdown, as in a similar scenario a colleague of mine did the wrong thing in calling out a workmate's antidepressant meds because data access is a bitch.
Isn't Facebook one of those companies that need to be told "Delete means delete!"?
Dude, they are slurping information about you before you even sign up. Shadow profiles is what they call it. If the government did it they'd call it your dossier.
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This comment isn't directed at Facebook, except insofar as they are part of the problem.
Ever notice how there are cameras everywhere now? And /. readers will be familiar with the waves of computer technology that swept through the consumer space in the last 30 years. All this has enabled a level of information access for security people, unknown in history.
To the extent that security and administrative personnel are ethical, responsible and professional the system mostly works. However what of those who are not ethical, responsible and professional? What of the lazy, corrupt, the criminal? What of the dictatorial, self-absorbed, deluded, or paranoid? What of those who are paid to look the other way, or those who gleefully participate in rights violations?
I'm surprised there aren't more of these cases. Clearly the security industry won't like the bad press, so maybe they downplay the incidents they actually cause? I'd be surprised if that wasn't happening.
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